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The First Person and Other Stories
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  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141038018
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $37.99

The First Person and Other Stories

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17 Aug 2009
EBook
17 Aug 2009
Audiobook
11 Feb 2021
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'A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' The Times

Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third story that challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality, the narrator, 'Ali', drinks tea, phones a friend, and muses on the surprising similarities between a short story and a nymph...

Fans of Ali Smith will be delighted, amused and moved by these stories from a writer at the very top of her game.
  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141038018
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $37.99
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About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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